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 Jones and so on. But as far as I can recall, all of the buildings needed to be
 replaced.

C: So many of them were built in the 1920s, and during the 1930s there was no
 money to do any work.

J: Yes. And that high school building, old Gainesville High School, [located on
 West University Avenue, did not have any equipment for scientific laboratories or
 libraries, so they were minimal. The heating systems were antiquated, and so
 on. That was generally the situation in Florida. Now, there were some
 buildings that were built by WPA, but most of those were additions. Now, this
 building, the P. K. Yonge building over here [presently Norman Hall], was built by
 WPA. The question always arises whether it belongs to Alachua County or the
 University of Florida.

C: Sidney Lanier and J. J. Finley [elementary] schools, I think, were WPA projects.

J: Yes, there were a few, but just a few like that. Yes, I remember Sidney Lanier
 was one. The buildings that were built by WPA were poorly placed in the state.
 Sidney Lanier is inadequately located at the present time, as far as a school.

C: They just did not do the necessary detailed planning.

J: No. They made no surveys.

C: Did they just tend to build where they had property?

J: One of the guidelines to build sometimes was where the local districts had
 money. The districts issued the bonds; they were district bonds. Even to this
 day, all the districts in each county are consolidated into one district called
 District One, and they issue district bonds. Not county bonds, but district bonds.

C: Right. The legislature could not completely do away with the district because
 that was in the constitution.

J: They could not do that. The teachers in the state struck over salaries. I think
 that was in [Florida Governor Reubin] Askew administration.

C: [That strike was in] 1968, [during Claude Kirk's administration].

J: Right. That was very poor political strategy. Prior to that time, the money was
 being allocated on a teacher-unit basis rather than a pupil basis. In my
 consulting work, I recommend either one, whichever is more politically
 acceptable. [The difference in the weighting:] teacher-unit weighted or pupil